Tennessee Rep. Barbara Cooper (D)

TN - HR22 Memorials, Recognition - Linda Nettles Harris, Living Legend Community Involvement Harriet "Moses" Tubman Award

TN - HR49 Memorials, Recognition - Stan Bell, Moderator for the 2nd Annual Living Legend Award Ceremony

TN - HR30 Memorials, Recognition - Joris Ray, Living Legend Award

TN - HB106 Fireworks - As enacted, authorizes the retail sale of Class C common fireworks in Millington. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 104.

TN - HR40 Memorials, Recognition - Lisa Akbari, Living Legend Community Involvement Harriet "Moses" Tubman Award

TN - HB358 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to establish a pilot project for the 2019-2020 school year to implement ticket programs for behavior management in certain Title I schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HR91 Memorials, Interns - Lydia Wilbourn

TN - HR19 Memorials, Recognition - Order of Elks, National Civil Liberties Annual Summit

TN - HR44 Memorials, Recognition - Wiley Henry, Living Legends Leadership Award

TN - HR25 Memorials, Recognition - Tom Lee

TN - HR28 Memorials, Recognition - A C Wharton, Living Legend Award

TN - HR38 Memorials, Recognition - Carol Coletta, Living Legend Award

TN - HR26 Memorials, Recognition - Gregory Grant, Living Legend Community Involvement Harriet "Moses" Tubman Award

TN - HR92 Memorials, Interns - Tai Richardson

TN - HB361 Solid Waste Disposal - As introduced, prohibits issuance of a permit, waiver, or variance to construct or expand a landfill within five miles of a residence; requires department of environment and conservation to organize meetings between violators and affected citizens upon the filing of a petition by such citizens to review violations and remedial actions. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Chapter 169 of the Private Acts of 1990.

TN - HR34 Memorials, Recognition - Ronald Kent, Living Legend Community Involvement Harriet "Moses" Tubman Award

TN - HR48 Memorials, Recognition - Bennie Smith, Living Legend Award

TN - HR47 Memorials, Recognition - Mary Cheers, Living Legends Community Conductor Award

TN - HR102 Memorials, Interns - Alexis Gatewood

TN - HR21 Memorials, Recognition - Terry Roland, Living Legend Award

TN - HR46 Memorials, Recognition - Robert Jefferson, Living Legend Award

TN - HR24 Memorials, Recognition - Harriet Tubman

TN - HR39 Memorials, Recognition - Ruby Payne, Living Legend Community Involvement Harriet "Moses" Tubman Award

TN - HB978 Public Employees - As introduced, prohibits public employers from discriminating against applicants for employment and employees with pregnancy-related conditions by not providing the applicants and employees with reasonable accommodations. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 8.

TN - HB355 Food and Food Products - As introduced, creates a task force to study the development of initiatives to reduce the waste of food in this state. - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 68.

TN - HR32 Memorials, Recognition - Mayor Jim Strickland, Living Legend Award

TN - HB30 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, permits certain incarcerated persons who are allowed to enroll in courses offered by a community college or Tennessee college of applied technology pursuant to an approved release plan to receive a Tennessee reconnect grant. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR51 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Supports establishment of a Full Employment National Trust Fund.

TN - HR43 Memorials, Recognition - Laurice Smith, Living Legends Special Honorary Harriet Tubman Conductors Award

TN - HR59 Memorials, Death - Modeane Nichols Thompson

TN - HR36 Memorials, Recognition - Mayor Terry Jones, Living Legend Award

TN - HR27 Memorials, Recognition - Myrtle Malone, Living Legend Community Involvement Harriet "Moses" Tubman Award

TN - HJR52 Memorials, Recognition - MSNBC, Chris Hayes, Trymaine Lee, and the production team of All In With Chris Hayes

TN - HB46 Election Laws - As introduced, requires a county election commission to maintain certain office hours on Sundays for purposes of early voting. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HR23 Memorials, Recognition - Charlotte T. Smith, Living Legend Community Involvement Harriet "Moses" Tubman Award

TN - HR41 Memorials, Recognition - Rufus Jones, Living Legends Special Honorary Harriet Tubman Conductors Award

TN - HR45 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Vincent Hunter, Living Legends Leadership Award

TN - HB977 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, creates a four-year agriculture education pilot project for 11th and 12th grade students; requires the department to create and administer an educational program focused on agriculture education. - Amends TCA Title 43 and Title 49.

TN - HR33 Memorials, Recognition - Beverly Robertson, Living Legend Award

TN - HJR93 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee women elected to public office in 2018

TN - HB138 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, requires peace officers to issue citations in lieu of continued custody and taking an arrested person before a magistrate after the commission of certain offenses; authorizes law enforcement agencies to create programs to refer individuals to treatment for substance abuse in lieu of arrest under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HB360 Driver Licenses - As introduced, on or after January 1, 2020, requires any person 75 years of age or older who applies for renewal of a driver license to pass a vision test unless the person submits a certified statement reporting the results of an examination by an ophthalmologist or optometrist and the need for any corrective lenses or diagnosed impaired night vision; authorizes persons with diagnosed impaired night vision to use night vision equipment without a driving-during-daytime-only restriction. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - HB356 Human Resources, Department of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to produce a survey for a person leaving state service that attempts to ascertain why the person is leaving and any suggestions the person may have to improve state service; requires commissioner to submit a report each year detailing the number of persons who voluntarily left state service and a summary of the surveys. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 8.

TN - HB1198 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to submit a progress report during the first regular session of each general assembly on the anti-poverty plan created by the department. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 71.

TN - HB357 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires certain Title I public schools to implement an age-appropriate, reward-based behavior modification system that reinforces positive student behavior with awards and incentives that are tailored to each school's unique student population. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HR50 Memorials, Recognition - Bev Johnson, Moderator for the 2nd Annual Living Legend Award Ceremony

TN - HR31 Memorials, Recognition - Willie Herenton, Living Legend Award

TN - HR35 Memorials, Recognition - Sheriff Floyd Bonner, Jr., Living Legend Award

TN - HB359 Education - As introduced, changes the deadline for publication of the Tennessee Postsecondary Education Fact Book from March 15 to March 30 each year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HR42 Memorials, Recognition - Edmund Ford, Sr., Living Legends Leadership Award

TN - HR29 Memorials, Recognition - Mayor Lee Harris, Living Legend Award

TN - HR37 Memorials, Recognition - Freda G. Williams, Living Legend Community Involvement Harriet "Moses" Tubman Award

TN - HB139 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires health insurance to cover acupuncture services as a benefit beginning January 1, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - HJR171 Memorials, Sports - Bob Kesling, Voice of the Vols

TN - HR72 Memorials, Recognition - Jimmy Ogle

TN - HB416 Employees, Employers - As introduced, prohibits a trustee or former trustee of a board of trustees of a hospital authority from entering into an arrangement for employment or the provision of labor or services with the authority until at least 12 months have expired following the trustee or former trustee's tenure of service on the board. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 68.

TN - HR86 Memorials, Interns - Shane Richards

TN - HR87 Memorials, Interns - Hailey Ragsdale

TN - HB1185 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, enacts the "Juvenile Justice Stop Solitary Confinement Act." - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 41, Chapter 4.

TN - HJR475 Memorials, Sports - University of Memphis men's basketball team

TN - HJR512 Memorials, Recognition - Judge Deborah Means Henderson

TN - HJR467 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Peiton Kristyana Jarmon

TN - HB1339 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires that a computer science course be offered at each public high school and public charter high school beginning with the 2019-2020 school year; creates the computer science and technology in public schools task force to review, research, and recommend computer science and technology curriculum standards and frameworks and to recommend strategies to meet the state's anticipated computer science and technology workforce needs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR474 Memorials, Death - Representative Ron Lollar

TN - HJR513 Memorials, Recognition - Beverly C. Robertson

TN - HJR435 Memorials, Retirement - Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos

TN - HB1327 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, authorizes leases entered into between Memphis and business owners holding a restaurant license from the alcoholic beverage commission to include provisions where the rent is calculated on gross sales, including gross sales of alcohol, of the business; prohibits a county from denying the issuance or renewal of a beer permit on the basis of a similar lease. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 1; Title 57, Chapter 4 and Title 57, Chapter 5.

TN - HJR4 Memorials, Professional Achievement - David Poile, U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame

TN - HJR476 Memorials, Sports - Jeremiah Martin

TN - HB912 State Symbols - As introduced, designates the poem "My Tennessee," written by Michael McDonald in 1984, as an official state poem of Tennessee. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-303.

TN - HJR72 Memorials, Recognition - Isabella Wren Sullivan, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HJR433 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Julie Schwarz, 2018 Christ the Teacher Award

TN - HJR139 Memorials, Death - Samuel W. Bartholomew, Jr.

TN - HB17 Children - As introduced, establishes a presumption that a minor who is the victim of a sexual offense or engaged in prostitution held a reasonable belief that the use of force is immediately necessary to avoid imminent death or serious bodily injury. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HJR515 Memorials, Death - Gladys Margaret Endsley McKinsey

TN - HB340 Forfeiture of Assets - As introduced, makes various changes to civil forfeiture procedure, including requiring the district attorney general to review the underlying circumstances of a seizure to determine if probable cause exists to justify forfeiture and, when appropriate, file a motion to dismiss the application for forfeiture warrant, upon which the court shall dismiss the application and return the seized property. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33.

TN - HJR175 Memorials, Death - Kenneth "Rance" Roby

TN - HJR73 Memorials, Personal Achievement - John W. Huffman, Eagle Scout

TN - HJR223 Memorials, Recognition - Dolly Parton

TN - HJR103 Memorials, Recognition - African-American Breast Cancer Awareness Week, September 8-14, 2019

TN - HR73 Memorials, Death - George Klein

TN - HJR231 Memorials, Death - Sam Powell

TN - HB942 Controlled Substances - As introduced, increases the penalty to a Class B felony for 15 grams or more or a Class A felony for 150 grams or more of fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, thiafentanil, or any fentanyl derivative or analogue. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - HB619 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to create and administer a coaching network for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten teachers throughout the state, to begin in the 2019-2020 school year; declares certain goals for the coaching network; requires the department to ensure the availability of early childhood consultants regionally, throughout the state. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR382 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Marjorie Jean Yaeger, 90th birthday

TN - HJR1 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recognizes teen suicide as a health crisis in Tennessee.

TN - HB273 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Save Tennessee Call Center Jobs Act of 2019." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 12; Title 50 and Title 67.

TN - HB810 Medical Occupations - As introduced, enacts the "Graduate Physicians Act." - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HR62 Memorials, Death - John Kilzer

TN - HB1423 County Government - As introduced, prohibits interpreting or amending county charter in a manner inconsistent with state law with respect to the duties, qualifications, and privileges of the constitutional county offices of sheriff, register, county clerk, assessor of property, or trustee. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 1, Part 2.

TN - HB353 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, allows certain persons who receive certified occupational training as a prisoner or a student in a high school technical training class to receive equivalent credit toward an occupational license relating to the training received. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 6, Part 1; Title 37; Title 38; Title 41; Title 49; Title 62 and Title 63.

TN - HJR153 Memorials, Public Service - Gerald McCormick

TN - HB823 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, requires, by February 15 of each year, the commission to provide a report to the general assembly detailing any state and federal funds appropriated to, and any matching funds received by, land-grant institutions of higher education in this state. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1483 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs to provide free feminine hygiene products in eligible public high schools. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.

TN - HJR116 Memorials, Recognition - David Williams II

TN - HB794 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, allows premises authorized to serve wine to also serve high alcohol content beer. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3, Part 7 and Title 57, Chapter 4.

TN - HB94 Education - As introduced, creates the "Tennessee Outdoor Education and Recreation Grant Program." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 49 and Title 70.

TN - HB1442 Controlled Substances - As introduced, reduces from 90 days to 60 days the threshold of time for a patient who is prescribed opioids, benzodiazepines, barbiturates, or carisoprodol in chronic, long-term drug therapy before the prescriber is required to consider mandatory urine drug testing. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 63; Title 65; Title 66 and Title 71.

TN - HB876 Sentencing - As introduced, establishes parole eligibility after 30 years for persons who committed crimes as juveniles and who were sentenced to greater than 30 years; authorizes parole eligibility after 20 years for such persons if certain conditions met; prohibits sentencing persons to life without parole for crimes committed when a juvenile. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HB949 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, enacts the Governor's Investment in Vocational Education Act; specifies that financial assistance received for all dual enrollment courses attempted after the fourth dual enrollment course reduces any subsequent award of the Tennessee HOPE scholarship. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-930.

TN - HB958 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates December 1 of each year as "Mrs. Rosa L. Parks Day," a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - HJR412 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Cookie Hopper, Miss Anderson County 2019

TN - HJR411 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Lily Steed, Miss Oak Ridge 2019

TN - HJR416 Memorials, Recognition - YWCA Greater Memphis, 100th anniversary

TN - HR68 Memorials, Retirement - Harrison D. McIver III

TN - HB941 Expunction - As introduced, removes $180 fee for an individual petitioning the court for an expunction of certain criminal offenses; removes $350 fee for a defendant applying for expunction of an offense following the completion of a diversion program. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HJR438 Memorials, Recognition - Shannon McCloud

TN - HJR385 Memorials, Recognition - Jaynee K. Day and Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee

TN - HJR377 Memorials, Death - Monroe James "M.J." Edwards, Sr.

TN - HB999 State Symbols - As enacted, designates the bluetick coonhound as the official state dog. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB1199 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, extends eligibility for receipt of Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grants to students who are attending certain independent postsecondary institutions and who are otherwise eligible for the grants. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HJR71 Memorials, Retirement - Meri Armour

TN - HR64 Memorials, Recognition - Social Work Month, March 2019

TN - HR3 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

TN - HR53 Memorials, Recognition - Manny and Adele Macca, Manny's House of Pizza

TN - HJR409 Memorials, Recognition - Blount County Public Library, 100th anniversary

TN - HB955 Public Utilities - As introduced, prohibits a public utility from charging a deposit as a precondition of providing utility service to persons who have been customers for at least five years and whose accounts have been in good standing for at least five years. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 65.

TN - HB37 Public Health - As introduced, creates the state Alzheimer's disease and related dementia advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 14 and Title 71.